Capitalism Cures Poverty

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Re: Capitalism Cures Poverty

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:01 pm

China is not America. They will build their civilization along the trajectory that is distinctly Chinese. They have not bought into your ridiculous notion that everything is arbitrary. They are doing their thing in a distinctly Chinese way. Does it suck? For us, sure, because we are European people with our own proclivities and biases. They don't much care for our ways either.

But is the bottom level of Chinese society better off for the "capitalism" the communist party has allowed to flourish? Yep.

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Re: Capitalism Cures Poverty

Post by Martin Hash » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:04 pm

Giving people opportunity cures poverty.

The people of the former Soviet Republics were raised out of poverty by Communism, but since the fall of the Soviet Union, they are using Capitalism, and are again picking cotton by hand. Communism gave them opportunity that crony Capitalism does not.
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Post by Okeefenokee » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:16 pm

Raised out of poverty?
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Re: Capitalism Cures Poverty

Post by TheReal_ND » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:19 pm

Wasn't capitalism coined by Marx? Did he not degenerate a system that works well to its basest form, money?

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Re: Capitalism Cures Poverty

Post by Hanarchy Montanarchy » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:32 pm

Speaker to Animals wrote:China is not America. They will build their civilization along the trajectory that is distinctly Chinese. They have not bought into your ridiculous notion that everything is arbitrary. They are doing their thing in a distinctly Chinese way. Does it suck? For us, sure, because we are European people with our own proclivities and biases. They don't much care for our ways either.

But is the bottom level of Chinese society better off for the "capitalism" the communist party has allowed to flourish? Yep.
There are Chinese laborers who are seeking assistance (from western labor organizations and the freer western media environment) in breaking apart their government's monopoly on trade unionism in order to make capitalism work better for the bottom level of Chinese society.

Saying that this is just western paternalism trying to force western values on the Chinese shows a lack of understanding of the current Chinese labor situation.
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Re: Capitalism Cures Poverty

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:35 pm

TheReal_ND wrote:Wasn't capitalism coined by Marx? Did he not degenerate a system that works well to its basest form, money?

No. It was coined by Adam Smith, I believe.

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Post by DBTrek » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:36 pm

China is doing better with open markets then it was with a centrally planned economy, right?

So what's the gripe?
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Re: Capitalism Cures Poverty

Post by Martin Hash » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:39 pm

DBTrek wrote:China is doing better with open markets then it was with a centrally planned economy, right?

So what's the gripe?
First One-Child policy, then planned economy, then Capitalism Zones, now limited Free Markets. Social Democrats, like in Australia, think they should stop there.
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Re: Capitalism Cures Poverty

Post by DBTrek » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:42 pm

Leave it to a Californian to take umbrage at a 3 min video of a guy essentially saying "Capitalism raises people out of poverty".

Pisses Californians right the fuck off.

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Re: Capitalism Cures Poverty

Post by Hanarchy Montanarchy » Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:06 pm

DBTrek wrote:Leave it to a Californian to take umbrage at a 3 min video of a guy essentially saying "Capitalism raises people out of poverty".

Pisses Californians right the fuck off.

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That ain't what bothers me.

What bothers me is that his arguments accept the Marxist claim that the only way capitalism can thrive is if the most desperate portions of the population are exploited for cheap labor.

As a fan of capitalism, I rather reject that notion, and think any one that presents it as an argument in favor of capitalism must not really understand the subject, and ought not be giving lectures. ;)
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